What i value more than all things, good humor.
Interpretation
Good humor is more important to me than anything else.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the significance of good humor in life. He suggests that the ability to maintain a cheerful and light-hearted perspective is paramount, surpassing material possessions or other values, which reflects an understanding of the importance of joy and laughter in human experience.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, one might quote Jefferson to highlight the role of humor in well-being.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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